That's a weird name. Out of curiosity, how did you know it was after the car instead of the general? Either way, it's still a bit odd.

because the mother didn't even know that there was a historical person. talk about a moron. basically, a kid whose cousin goes to my sons school, so the kid and his mother came to a fund raiser on the weekend. and the aunt thinks that the parents are morons, too, and told my wife the whole story.

It seems that people with a certain name often act similar. I know it seems that way with my name. I once knew a girl named "Naughty", spelled way differently though pronounced too similar for anyone to tell the difference.

I sometimes think it should be illegal to name your kid anything outside a certain range of non-detrimental names... but I guess it's just more natural selection. I wonder if a study has been done to say whether people with non-"normal" (for their society/culture) names generally do worse in life. I would have to guess, on average, a kid named John will do better than a kid named something that begs to be ripped on.